Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1887-12-08
BILL nye TALKS ABOUT coxsoys.
He Fears an umcurssOm Of NSStces from
the Old World.


the Old World.
The cable news from l.Onton would
seem to Indicate that the coming year
will witness large h.gira of armed \
goslings from England who intend to
prosecute the COW gentleman and
Dt.adwood stage robbing business on
our frontier. II is perhaps unneces-
to state that Buffalo William, the
graceful and courteous hiresute Won
der from Nebraska, Is largely respon-
sible for this. Wherever he has gone
with his eccentric, dark red. selt-made
Indians aud his speckled bronchos he
has sown the seeds OF dis,'Ontent IN
the grammar schools and bred open
rebellion aud mn iny in the prinar.
department.
Look along the red hot trail Of B.
William and you lind ;he American
and foreign youth alike turning with
undisg,ii-e,i iuathins from his educa-
tional pursuits to immer-e his legs in
pair OF chaperaio-, to WELD the brief
but stina'ng q'ir't. 20 whoop up the
red eyed, haI.i,fY and high taiie'i
Texan M.,,erics. ar shoot large. irreg-
ular holes into the otherwise poorly
ventilated savage.
! Gentle reader. we stand upon the
cr,lnbling brink Of Il great cowboy
eruption from England. Ireland. Scot
+ land. the contin and the great ORR
ent itself. do not think that Buffalo
Bill had any idea when he started in
TO rehearse his great society drama
! and horse play. that it would so soon
/ disturb international relations and
1 thrOng our cactus forests and grease
wood vineyards Will, Juvenile cowboys
( from Greenland icy mountains and
iudia's coral strands. Ii lac had he
would have hesitatcd about il. Now,
alas. it il too late. lie is billed for
the Coliseum. and already people from
/ I.yrslla and the citrOn groves of ST.
! Lawrence county are coming INTO
town. bringing their dinners and hitch
ing their teams to the fence behind the
Z Coliseum.
Hard. bine preserved seats. ] am
told, are being erected around the am
phitheatre, and the Roman schools
are closed Every thing points toward
"a great festal day, il that would be
the right kind OF "a day to use in this
place L. it to he wondered at that
We will soon see Roman cowboys, who
ought TO be in school landing here on
our coasts and inquiring 1T the corner
of Broadway and Chambers street
where they can find an Indian out
DFeiK 20 1UeIr7 May We not f00K TOT
rhe Arabian and Chinese contingent
by next spring. armed to the teeth
and asking at an intelligence Office
when the D.,dwood stage Is expected,
so that they can attack IT, and rob it
u few times?
| saw one Of iresc kin,ier.a artcn COW
boys gel oil Il train once and 90 mp
7 through the town. Afterwad. | saw
him come back Iie looked different
! somehow. When he got oil ut the
station noticed that u. had long hair.
which was tied back with u pale blue
watercd silk ribbon. lie had long
legs, whirh seemed to extend from liis
Adams apple TO the ground. mar
row. red tour-in-iiand necktie denoted
where the ler, terminated and the
head BEGAN. lie looked real sweet
When he took the return train there
was nothing by which to identity him
except IL aNberry mark, which he
carried carefully concealed in Il shawl
strap.
BOYS who si-l tn dash madly across
the plains or follow the COW path To
: fame do not know OF the dangers and
! ,leSola, ion such II lite involves. There
; are two CLASSES of cowboys in the
, west. viz. the working cowboy and
the Law figure cowboy. The latter
remains in town and rolls cigarei ties
> which he smokes iiarcely through hi'
: nose. lie talks learnelly Of catil'
bands, corrIls, round-up>. ''civNy
! wards ranges. bands. bunclics ano
{ herds. but dor-n't really know rang
eos from Texas steer.
D The aant,ine cowboy L. no! alwaN'
I bralItiiul. but he /. cOuversant Wit
: iii, ipu..iiir,S, inogs every brand IN IN
= district at least and who owns il; l.
p brave where bra very Is most needed
+ that j.. in the discharge Of his duty
D To stand watch all night in n blizzart
D and hold II band of RESTLESS. ballowin,
cattle from stampe1ing. ro ride AL th'
. next .laN hni asleep III his saddle, t.
II fall oc,..i -ionaliy ."om his pony whei
u the latter makes "A mistake and step
" into II prairie do, village, or o have !
: collar bon. broken VIXEN fifty mile
q from a physician, are some oi th'
u features oi COW boy life which the boy
:: who run away from school to cro,
u the Missouri do not consider.
! Moreover. II would be well il ever,
J boy in America or .i-emiIere wonl'
write in li- own hat with II blue i,cuci
y that there J. no ru.,. hor'iercd road t.
r success. aud hat even the man who !
II born l.sutiiui and marrlc- rich In
r to ii.ht his NAY. The gre.t west doe
u not 80 sor,.!y net'i pretty men VIII
II buck~kin cloihes a. Vt does good citl
: z.n- who are willing to work. Whcf
g e.,r he >i,n shines or grass grows an
:. water run-. he yotlii. man VINO wi
u rive a COOL days work for iarday
" Na.,-, will surely be promoted a. h
observes il. II may not he lInny. bu
il i. the Yer dyln, truth that indn'
Try, integrity and perseverance ar
n,.nty good substitute ior -ymm,
.irt. genus AMI htir.-B Bill Nye IL Nc'
YorA Word.